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What did karate start as?

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Anonymous

13y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

The history of Karate is full of uncertainty and mythology.

It has been suggested that 1,500 years ago a young buddhist monk (Bodhidharma) invented a method of self-defense that was possibly the original form of Karate during the 5th or 6th Century AD.

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13y ago

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